[MlMt] moving my mail from one server to another—will my IMAP mailboxes & their contents survive the move?

[Henry Seiden]

Ken,

Are you paying for migration from X to Y?

If it were me, I would do it myself and would make a full backup to your 
local drive of all emails and mailboxes regardless (because I don’t 
believe anyone else other than what I see AND secondly would not cancel 
X company server before you know that all mailboxes, contents and mail 
enclosures inside them are fully transferred (at least by a numeric 
count of the contents and random examinations) on Y’s Server.

Again, I would make someone pay for the overlap to complete this 
process, too, along with any other fixes for screwups.

Did I answer all?

Respectfully,

Henry Seiden
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Techworks Pro Co.
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On 4 Apr 2023, at 16:20, Ken Pope wrote:

> My mail currently resides on a dedicated server managed by company X.  
> To save money, I’m considering transferring my domains, mail, and 
> websites from X to a dedicated server managed by company Y.
>
> Will all the many, *many* IMAP mailboxes that MailMate has created for 
> me disappear in the move, or will they (if the move goes well) wind up 
> on the new server with their contents intact?
>
> If it is likely that they and their contents (many emails in each) 
> will survive the transition, is there anything I should ask company Y 
> to do or avoid doing the increase the chances of a safe move?
>
> Thanks—as always—for your help.
>
> Ken

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